Preparation

Put oven rack in middle position and preheat to 350°F. Oil loaf pan well and dust with flour, knocking out excess.

Whisk together flour, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, baking powder, and ginger in a small bowl. Whisk together honey, oil, and coffee in another bowl until well combined.

Beat together eggs and brown sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at high speed 3 minutes. Reduce speed to low, then add honey mixture and whiskey and mix until blended, about 1 minute. Add flour mixture and mix until just combined. Finish mixing batter with a rubber spatula, scraping bottom of bowl.

Pour batter into loaf pan (batter will be thin) and bake 30 minutes. Cover top loosely with foil and continue to bake until cake begins to pull away from sides of pan and a wooden pick or skewer inserted in center comes out clean, about 30 minutes more. Cool on a rack 1 hour.

Run a knife around side of cake, then invert rack over pan and invert cake onto rack. Turn cake right side up and cool completely.

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Recent Review

This recipe was fantastic. For someone who is usually a great failure with cakes, and isn't usually a fan on honey cake I have to say that I thought this turned out to be phenomenal. I usually leave out the whiskey because I don't normally have it on hand, and either way it comes out okay. I also add a pinch of clove and pinch of cardimon - but that's just me.